
STIEHL’S SPENCERIAN BUSINESS COLLEGE 

Established 1864 Academy of Music Building, Ninth Street cor. D N. W., Washington, D. C. Entrance, 403 Ninth St. >, * 

SIXTY EXERCISES IN PENMANSHIP AND ANNOUNCEMENT. Copyright, 1905, by Leon P. W. Stiehl 


A Beautiful 

Practical College Home 


T HE Spencerian Business 

COLLEGE has never been so 
well equipped in its delightful 
home as now. Two of the four 
beautiful halls now occupied by 
the college widen out into the 
tower, from which picturesque 
views of public gardens, monu¬ 
ments, Arlington, and scenes of 
the Potomac refresh and delight 
the eye, making one forget he 
stands in the business center of 
the city ; while glancing within, 
the substantial up-to-date and 
handsomely refurnished halls form 
pictures to rest in the memory. 
The happy students and teachers 
for whom this provision is made 
will hold among their cherished 
memories a vision of the restful 
beauty and practical spirit of their 
college home. ^ ''C ''C 




Special 

Announcement 


Washington, D. C., 

June 26, 1905 

To the Citizens of Washington and 
all Whom it may Concern : 

I have this day sold and trans¬ 
ferred the Spencerian Business 
College of Washington, D. C., to 
Mr. L. P. W. Stiehl and Mrs. Lula 
Vincent Stiehl, who will conduct 
the business in a first-class, up-to- 
date manner, and carry students to 
a high degree of proficiency and 
efficiency. I solicit for them the 
confidence and patronage of this 
community and an enterprising 
public, which has so trusted, hon¬ 
ored, and cherished this institution 
for forty years. IV r. Stiehl has 
been for thirty years a teacher and 
master of Spencerian 3 enmanship, 
shorthand and typev, iting, book¬ 
keeping, etc. Mrs. Stiehl is an 
accomplished teacher of fifteen 
years’ experience. 

Mrs. Sara A. Spencer 







































Mrs. Luca Vincent Stiehe 


Mr. Leon P. W. Stiehe 


OWNERS AND PRINCIPALS OF STIEHL’S SPENCERIAN BUSINESS COLLEGE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 











OFFICE OF THE CHRONICLE. 


Uhrichsville and Dennison, 9,000 progressive people, fine schools 
and churches, two railroads, two street-car systems, 
paved streets, natural gas, etc. 

To Whom It May Concern: 

Stiehl's Business College, which has been in successful 
operation here for several years, is one of the best institutions 
for the young men and young women of this community that 
the Twin Cities have ever had. I personally know many young 
people who are earning good salaries as result of their training 
at this school. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. W. Stiehl have shown by 
their work here that they are thorough business educators, 
and any vicinity in which they may locate another business 
college will do well to give them every possible encouragement 
in the enterprise. 

Respectfully, 

W. H. Stout, P. M., 

Editor and Publisher of The Chronicle. 


REMINGTON TYPEWRITER COMPANY. 


Stiehl’s Business College, 

Uhrichsville, Ohio. 


Cleveland, May 25, 1904. 


Dear Mr. and Mrs. Stiehl : 


It is with the utmost regret that we learn that you have 
sold out your interests in Ohio. Our associations in the past 
have been so extremely gratifying that it is almost like losing 
one of our own family. With all due respect to your successors, 
we think they will find it difficult to maintain the high stand¬ 
ard of excellence for which you have always worked and of 
which we have seen frequent evidence in the quality of your 
graduates. 

We want to take advantage of this opportunity to thank you 
very cordially indeed for the many courtesies you have ex¬ 
tended to us and to wish you the greatest possible degree of 
success in your new field. .Should you ever have occasion to 
revisit this section, do not forget that we have a warm spot in 
our hearts for you, and will be disappointed if we do not see 
you. 

Again wishing you success, we remain, 

Yours very truly, 

Remington Typewriter Company, 
Geo. S. Newton, Manager. 



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importance of shorthand 

A PRACTICAL, working knowledge of shorthand is the most valuable accomplishment 
any young man or woman entering business life can possess. It absolutely insures a 
good-paying position. The demand for capable stenographers is and always has been 
far greater than the supply. 

A practical knowledge of shorthand is equivalent to a scholarship m the great school of 
the business world, and the student draws a good salary while receiving instruction. 

If you have business ability in any direction, it gives you an opportunity to show it. 
It brings you into direct contact with the brain of the business world. It places you on the 
direct road to preferment and opens the way to the highest executive positions. Through no 
other avenue can a young man or a young woman enter business life so advantageously. 

Every business concern now employs a stenographer, and many of the larger ones 
employ scores of shorthand assistants. 

Were the great army of stenographers at present filling responsible and lucrative 
positions in the United States to cease operations for a single week, correspondence would be 
suspended to such an extent that business would be paralyzed. 

Such an important factor has the expert stenographer become in the transaction of 
business that one of the great corporations in Pittsburgh has established a rule requiring that 
only young men having a practical knowledge of shorthand shall be engaged in its offices, the 

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SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS COLLEGE. 


only exception to the rule being conditioned upon the promise to at once attend a good school 
for the acquirement of the invaluable art. This corporation has sent a number of its employes 
to Stiehl’s Spencerian Business College. 

“ The only sure guide is, he who has often gone the road which you want to go." 

LORD CHESTERFIELD. 


OPPORTUNITIES 

T HERE are thousands of persons holding responsible positions today at good salaries, 
many at the head of large enterprises, who made their start as stenographers. No employd 
is in a better position to gain a thorough knowledge of the business in which he is 
engaged than the stenographer. By reason of his confidential relations with his employer and 
coming into contact as he does with the manager and heads of departments, his abilities are 
certain to be recognized, and promotion to a more responsible position at a higher salary is 
sure to follow. 

SELECTION OF A COLLEGE 

H AVING determined to become a stenographer, the next important question is the 
selection of a college where one can be sure of the best instruction and the close 
personal attention of experienced teachers, who are themselves practical stenographers. 
Study should be pursued in pleasant quarters, amid congenial companionships. 

Stiehl’s Spencerian College is the oldest in establishment, but the most modern, 
thorough, progressive, and practical school, and the leading specialist in its line, in 
Washington, D. C. It is, in a sense, an exclusive college. None but students of good 
character are enrolled, and, although no unreasonable restraint is imposed upon them, the 
highest deportment is maintained. 

It is required of each student that the entire time during sessions shall be devoted 
exclusively to study, practice, and recitations. 

The curriculum of the High Schools of the cities of Washington, Baltimore, etc., includes 
shorthand and typewriting, but so many other branches of study are pursued that the progress 
made with stenography is necessarily slow, and High School graduates find their way to 
Stiehl’s Spencerian College to complete the work and to secure the reward for diligent 
effort—a good position. 

Shorthand, like the law, can best be learned when, to the exclusion of all other studies, 
one’s time, thought, and energy are devoted to its acquirement, and in this way alone can the 
greatest progress be made. The school of stability and high standing, making a specialty of 
shorthand and typewriting and the branches closely allied to these particular studies, is the one 
wisely chosen by ambitious young men and young women. 

Such an institution is Stiehl’s Spencerian College. 


Diploma : 

This certifies that Lula Vincent Stiehl has completed the 
regular commercial course in the above-named institution and 
upon proper examination is found worthy of graduation. We 
therefore by these presents cheerfully commend her to the favor 
and confidence of the business community. 

In testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our names in 
the city of San Francisco, State of California, on the tenth day 
of November, 1902. 

Mr. Stiehl also holds diploma from above college. 


AMERICAN BRIDGE COMPANY. 

Pittsburg, Pa., August 22, 1903. 

Stiehl’s Business College, 

Uhrichsville, Ohio. 

Dear Sirs: 

I have to advise you, for your general information, that 
Mr. Raymond Morehead’s services as a stenographer have been 
entirely satisfactory for the last two years that he has been with 
us, ana his work has not only been more rapidly gotten out 
than others in the employ of the company, but to all intents is 
quite accurate. 

Yours truly, 

M. Williams, 

Division Manager. 


THE THEO. F. BENTEL COMPANY, INC. 

Pittsburg, Pa., August 1, 1903. 

Stiehl’s Business College, 

Uhrichsville, Ohio : 

This is to certify that Miss Ida Allbaugh has been in our 
employ for the last thirteen months as a stenographer, and we 
find that she is rapid, competent, accurate, and painstaking 
with all her work, due, we believe, to the excellent method of 
training she received at your school. 

Very truly, 

The Theo. F. Bentel Co. 
Thos. J. Jones, Secretary. 


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THE PHONOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE, 

Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Established in 1853. 

To Whom These Presents May Come, Greeting : 

Whereas we have carefully examined L- P. W. Stiehl in 
the science of Phonetics and the art of Phonography, and 
whereas we have found him to have a competent knowledge 
therein : Therefore we do hereby testify that he is well qualified 
as a teacher of Phonography, and we do hereby cordially rec¬ 
ommend him as such. In testimony whereof we have here¬ 
unto set our hands and attached the seal of the Phonographic 
Institute this first day of April, one thousand nine hundred 
and two. 

Benn Pitman, President. 

Jerome B. Howard, Manager. 


OFFICE OF ANDREW J. GRAHAM & CO., 

Authors and Publishers of Standard Phonography, 

744 Broadway, New York. 

February 16, 1895. 

To Whom it May Concern : 

This is to certify that I know Mr. L. P. W. Stiehl to be 
familiar with the principles of Standard Phonography and a 
competent and successful teacher of my system. 

Andrew J. Graham, 
Author of Standard Phonography. 


OFFICE OF THE BRYANT & STRATTON BUSINESS 
COLLEGE AND PUBLISHING CO., 

97 W. Genessee St., Buffalo, N. Y. 

May 26, 1902. 

To Whom It May Concern : 

This is to certify that after a careful examination on the 
principles of Graham Shorthand as exemplified in “ Shorthand 
Simplified,” I find Mr. L. P. W. Stiehl thoroughly competent 
to teach the system. In the execution of the characters he is 
particularly strong, which is a decided advantage in teaching 
shorthand. As Mr. Stiehl has been making a special study of 
my methods of teaching, and knowing him personally as an 
enthusiastic instructor of much magnetism, I can heartily 
recommend him to those who wish to prepare themselves at 
the least expenditure of time aud money for the best positions. 
Respectfully, 

Geo. W. Davis, 

Author of Simplified, 


THE SYSTEM WE TEACH 

W E TEACH Graham-Pitman Standard Phonography Simplified, the system used by 
nearly all of the professional stenographers in the United States, within two per cent, 
of the number using all other systems combined, including congressional and 
legislative reporters, official court stenographers in Washington, and thousands of shorthand 
writers occupying responsible positions in this city and in all other large cities of the Union. 

Its superiority in speed, accuracy, and legibility have never been questioned. The 
promulgators of inferior systems dare not assail it. Their only contenton against it is that it is 
difficult to learn. This assertion every High School boy and girl in the cities of Washington 
and Baltimore, where slightly modified elements of the systems are taught, and every student 
in our own college will deny. The Graham-Pitman System Simplified is just as easily learned 
as any one of the English branches taught in the public schools, if students attend a regular 
institution under the instruction of experts instead of departments conducted in a superficial 
manner. Among the thousands who are now studying or contemplating the study of shorthand 
probably a great majority have not carefully investigated the numerous systems before the 
public. They have made, or will make, a choice on the advice of some one who has no actual 
knowledge of any system, or of a person who is interested in the publication of one or in some 
school that teaches it. 

Would it not be wiser to study only Graham-Pitman Shorthand Simplified, the system 
that 98 per cent, of the expert reporters use? The advice of the editor of “ The Typewriter 
and Phonographic World ” is : “In your selection of a system choose only one that has been 
proven good, and that you know is now being used for the most difficult verbatim reporting.” 

Mr. Fred. Irland, the famous Official Reporter of Debates in the United States House of 
Representatives, and who is accredited by his colleagues as being “ probably the best all-round 
reporter in the world,” in giving his opinion as to systems, said to a correspondent : “ I spent 
five years trying to attain reporting speed in Uindsley’s Tachygraphy, a joined-vowel 
system, much more logical than the one you send me. I got so I could write with considerable 
facility, but seeing how much more easily good phonographers could read and write than I 
could, I changed to Graham’s Phonography, and I attribute any reporting success I have 
attained to the use of this beautifully simple, logical, and perfect system. The proof of the 
pudding, etc. The best writers and readers of shorthand in the world as a class are Graham 
and Pitman writers. It can be written briefly or not, as one’s hand and temperament require. 
It is the fastest written and the most certainly read of any. Most other system have come 
through the hands of men who are not reporters, whose tinkering is as dangerous and 
destructive as the revarnishing and revamping of Cremona violins,”—From the Typewriter 
and Phonographic World,” August, 1902. 


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INSTRUCTION IN ALL PITMANIC SYSTEMS 


W HILE we unhesitatingly recommend, and make a specialty of teaching, the Graham- 
Pitman System of Shorthand Simplified to all who seek the best obtainable, we are 
prepared to impart instruction in any of the Pitmanic systems preferred by prospective 
students, and invite all desiring to study shorthand, regardless of the system preferred, to visit 
us and thoroughly investigate the relative merits of the respective systems before arranging to 
pursue a course in any institution where systems of untried worth and unknown value, devised 
by unpractical authors, may be taught. The best system extant is none too good for the 
ambitious student, and costs no more in time, effort or money than to learn a palpably inferior 
or doubtful one. 


RECEPTION OF NEW STUDENTS ' 

T HE instruction of the primary classes being largely of an individual nature, new students 
may enter at any time in the month at either the day or evening sessions, the tuition 
dating from the time of entry. As students advance in their studies, small classes are 
formed, wherever it may be of advantage, in order to stimulate them to greater effort and 
induce that beneficial influence which congenial association with others in like endeavor always 
inspires and promotes. 


TlflE REQUIRED TO LEARN SHORTHAND 


W E are sometimes asked, “ Can I gain a practical knowledge of shorthand and typewriting 
in twelve weeks?” Our answer is, emphatically, “No.” More than this, do not 
waste your time, energy, and money in any school offering any such inducements. 
It eannot be done. Any system of shorthand for which the claim is made that it can be acquired 
and the student prepared for a position in three months’ time, or less, is not worth the trouble 
to learn. It will lead only to utter disappointment and discouragement. 

We have had in our own college students who had been caught by the alluring adver¬ 
tisements of unscrupulous colleges, and after graduating and securing their diplomas discovered, 
too late, that they had expended both time and money in vain. One of them had secured two 
positions, but could retain neither. Another said she could not get a good position, as the 
system that she used did not possess the requisite speed. They dropped their quickly learned 
systems and began their studies anew at Stiehe’s Spencerian Coeeege, taking up the 
Graham-Pitman System of Shorthand Simplified. Neither of them had any difficulty in 
acquiring a proficiency that enabled them to obtain and hold good positions. 

No good system of shorthand can be acquired and the student equipped for perfect work 
in much less time than six months. We have had a few students who became accomplished 
stenographers, and were placed in good positions, in considerably less time, but these were 
rare exceptions. Much depends upon the education, application, and aptitude of the student. 
However, students receive instruction individually, or in small classes, so that the progress of 
the ambitious and apt student is not retarded by the lack of application or inaptitude of another. 


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SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS COLLEGE. 

Diploma : 

This certifies that L. P. W. Stiehl has completed the regular 
commercial course in the above named institution and upon 
proper examination is found worthy of graduation. We, there¬ 
fore, by these presents cheerfully commend him to the favor 
and confidence of the business community. 

In testimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our names in 
the city of San Francisco, State of California, on the second day 
of December, 1893. 

N. S. Phelps, President. 

C. S. Ellis, Secretary. 

Mr. and Mrs. Stiehl both hold diplomas from the above College. 


NATIONAE ASSOCIATION OF ACCOUNTANTS AND 
BOOKKEEPERS. 

This is to certify that E- P. W. Stiehl is a member of the 
National Association of Accountants and Bookkeepers, having 
subscribed to the constitution and by-laws of the Association 
and satisfied the requirements of the Board of Governors. 
Given at Detroit, Michigan, this 14th day of January, 1902. 

H. P. Sanger, President. 

W. W. Thorne, Secretary. 


THE SMITH PREMIER TYPEWRITER CO. 

Cleveland, Ohio, May 25, 1904. 
Mr. E. P. W. Stiehl, Canton, Ohio. 

Dear Sir: 

It is with extreme regret that we learn that you have dis¬ 
posed of your school at Canton and expect to leave the territory 
controlled by this office Our dealings have always been very 
agreeable, and we have looked upon your school as one among 
the most thorough of any under this office ; and the character 
of students have been such as to do credit both to yourself and 
us when we have placed them. 

You take with you our very best wishes for a future success, 
and we feel sure that if you pursue the same course in the 
future as you have in the past that your success is assured. 

Yours very truly, 

L. W. Jared, Manager. 





SPENCERIAN COMMERCIAL AND SHORTHAND 
SCHOOL- 

Cleveland, Ohio, April 23, 1902. 

To Whom It May Concern : 

I have been well acquainted with Prof. L- P. W. Stiehl for 
several years. I regard him as a most enthusiastic and success¬ 
ful teacher of bookkeeping-and Spencerian penmanship. He 
stands high with the members of his profession, and is regarded 
as a progressive and capable educator. 

Respectfully, 

H. T. Loomis, 
Treasurer and Manager. 


THE ZANERIAN ART COLLEGE- 

Columbus, Ohio, May 23, 1902. 

To Whom It May Concern : 

This certifies that we have known Mr. L. P. W. Stiehl 
personally and professionally for a number of years. He is an 
artist and a master of all styles of penmanship, and we have 
always found him to be a courteous, well-informed, public- 
spirited, progressive gentleman. 

Respectfully, 

Zaner & Blosser. 


THE SMITH PREMIER TYPEWRITER COMPANY. 

Cleveland, Ohio, May 25, 1904. 

Mr. C. W. McFee, Manager, 

The Smith Premier Typewriter Co., 

Washington, D. C. 

Dear Mr. McFee : 

This will introduce to you Mr. and Mrs. L. P. W. Stiehl, 
who have been conducting business schools at Canton and 
Uhrichsville, Ohio, and have recently sold out their interests, 
expecting to locate in Washington, D. C. 

We are very sorry to lose them from our territory, as they 
have been liberal patrons of our company, and our business re¬ 
lations have always been of the most agreeable nature. Their 
financial responsibilities cannot be questioned, and the class 
of students they turn out are of the highest grade. 

What will be a loss to us will be your gain, and we know that 
any efforts on your part to assist them in their new location 
will be greatly appreciated. 

Yours very truly, 

L. W. Jared, Manager. 


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THE STAFF 


Faculty 


Iv. P. W. Stiehl \ 
Lula V. Stiehl J 


Proprietors. 


Assisted by Specialists and General Assistants. 

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M r. and Mrs. Stiehl give tbeir personal attention to the interests of the institution of 
which they are the owners and principals. Their broad experience as professional 
stenographers and experienced teachers at once creates a keen interest on the part of 
the students in their methods of work, and their words of advice and warning are of the 
greatest possible value and aid to the students That their services in this direction are 
appreciated, not only by our own students but by stenographers throughout the city, is attested 
by the fact that this school has had as members of its speed class many students of other 
colleges, and has increased the speed of a number of them two and some three fold. 


SPECIAL POST-GRADUATE REPORTING COURSE 

S TENOGRAPHERS desiring to prepare themselves by an extended course of study and 
practice for court and general verbatim reporting are specially prepared for the work, 
receiving thorough instruction in Graham’s Reporting Style, including phrase-writing, 
enabling the stenographer to attain a high rate of speed. They receive in dictation all manner 
of legal papers, involving the technicalities of law, testimony in all kinds of cases, technical 
and otherwise, convention proceedings, political speeches, religious work, toasts, addresses, 
lectures, etc. 

TYPEWRITING DEPARTMENT 


T HIS department is fully equipped with machines of all standard makes. All students are 
required to become expert in the manipulation of one make of machine, and to under¬ 
stand the operation of all, so that when a position is secured for them they may, if 
necessary, readily change from one to the other. 

Typewriting practice is begun immediately upon entering school, and a certain amount 
of time is devoted each day to such work. This department is in personal charge of an efficient 
instructor. Students receive instructions on all machines, the course including billing, tabu¬ 
lating, legal papers, specifications, direct dictation, and general speed practice ; also manifold¬ 
ing, letter-press work, and mimeographing. Many new machines have been added to the 
school equipment, which is at all times sufficient for the accommodation of all students. 
Students may have a typewriter at their homes after having learned how to manipulate, 
operate, and care for the machine. The Model Office Department for advanced students is 
complete in every detail and is the crowning feature of the Shorthand and Typewriting 
Department. » 


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REMINGTON TYPEWRITER company. 


OUR EVENING SCHOOL 

T HERE always have been, and probably always will be, hundreds of young men and young 
women in every community who have been impelled by choice or circumstances to enter 
some vocation early in life, and from contact with the world and from the more successful 
experience of others have learned that more lucrative and pleasant employment is to be found 
in other fields of business than that in which they had chosen to engage. The natural result 
of such knowledge is discontentment and an earnest desire to prepare themselves for the work 
offering greater attractions and inducements as the reward of industry and effort, and hundreds 
of such persons employed in the government and business offices, stores, and shops of our 
cities every year wisely determine to become expert stenographers. 

It is for the benefit of these ambitious young men and young women that our Night 
School is maintained. Students may enter at any time in the month with the absolute assur¬ 
ance that they may pursue their studies to completion without interruption. 

Then, too, students in the Night School receive the same instruction and attention as is 
given in the Day School, and, if convenient, many change from the evening to the day session, 
so that they may be within call when applications for stenographers are received at the school— 
an almost daily occurrence. 

Hundreds of young people have availed themselves of the opportunity to attend our 
Night School, and have increased their earning power several fold, besides securing delightful, 
permanent employment with the government, corporations, and business concerns where the 
prospects of rapid advancement to positions yielding even greater remuneration are most 
promising. 

Scores of the more prominent personages in national life, and in the professional, 
financial, and business circles of our own and all other cities, unhesitatingly attribute a large 
measure of their success and prosperity to the fact that they began work as expert stenographers, 
thus opening up mines of golden opportunities which would otherwise have remained forever 
closed to them. 


SPEED CLASS 

O NE of the interesting features of the College is the evening speed class, composed of 
advanced night pupils of Stiehl’S Spencerian College using the Graham-Pitman 
Simplified Shorthand, and other stenographers, employed during the day, who are 
seeking to perfect themselves and achieve greater success in shorthand work. Some of the 
members of the speed class write other systems than the Graham and Pitmanic shorthand, all 
receiving equal benefit from the dictation. The entire evening is devoted to dictation and the 
reading of notes, unless the student is not engaged in doing shorthand and typewriting work 
during the day, in which event a division of the time is made, and a portion of the period is 
spent in typewriting practice. 


- ' Pittsburg, May 20, 1904. 

Mr. and Mrs. L. P. W. Stiehl, 

Uhrichsville, Ohio. 

Dear Friends : 

We are pleased to say that during the past several years 
we have placed for you a very large number of graduates in 
good positions in Pittsburg. Your young men and women 
come to us so well prepared that we have never found any 
trouble in placing them in desirable positions. 

If you could send us three or four young men and women 
who are capable of taking good positions, we believe we will 
be able to place them within a very few days after their arrival. 
Yours very truly, 

Remington Typewriter Co. 
John S. Bayes, Manager. 


THE UNION BANK. 

Uhrichsville, Ohio, July 5, 1904. 

To Whom it May Concern : 

Mr. and Mrs. L. P. W. Stiehl have conducted a business 
college in Uhrichsville, Ohio, during the past eight years. 
Their school has been a very successful institution both finan¬ 
cially and in the way of giving young people a thorough busi¬ 
ness education in stenography, typewriting, book-keeping, etc. 

They had established a reputation in this line before they 
located here, and it was but a short time until they had a large 
attendance gathered from all parts of eastern Ohio. 

The business training of the students of Stiehl’s Business 
College was such that it enabled them to secure lucrative posi¬ 
tions in the towns and cities of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and other 
States. 

During this time Mr. Stiehl also established a successful in¬ 
stitution of the same kind at Canton, Ohio, and having an 
opportunity to dispose of their business in eastern Ohio on 
their own terms they now leave here to establsh themselves in 
Washington, D. C., where they will have a wider field for their 
work. • 

Mr. Stiehl was also employed here by our board of education 
to give instruction in penmanship in our schools, and his work 
was very satisfactory, as his ability in this line is very superior 
indeed. 

We wish for Mr. Stiehl great success in his new field of labor. 

Very truly yours, 

The Union Bank, 

By Maurice Moody, President. 


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REMINGTON STANDARD TYPEWRITER EMPLOYMENT 
DEPARTMENT. 

Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, 

137 Superior St., Cleveland, Ohio. 

February 25, 1902. 

Mr. L. P. W. Stiehl, President, 

Stiehl’s Business College, 

Uhrichsville, Ohio. 

Dear Sir: 

It may interest you to know that we have placed Miss 
Laura Dempster, a graduate of your school, as stenographer 
with the Grasselli Chemical Co. of this city. The position she 
is filling is one of the best in Cleveland, and we would not have 
sent her as an applicant for it if we had not been satisfied that 
she was first class in every particular as regards her shorthand 
and typewriting ability. 

We can assure you that any more of your graduates of a like 
caliber should have no difficulty in getting first-class positions. 

The services of our employment department everywhere 
throughout the world are available for you and your graduates 
at all times gratuitously. 

Yours very truly, 

Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict. 
George T. Newton, Manager. 


OFFICE OF SADLER, BRYANT & STRATTON BUSINESS 
COLLEGE AND SADLER-ROWE CO., EDUCATIONAL 
PUBLISHERS, 

W. H. Sadler, President. 

Baltimore, Md., April 28, 1902. 

To Whom It May Concern : 

I have known Mr. L. P. W. Stiehl for a number of years 
as a teacher of the commercial branches and the proprietor of 
commercial schools. He is familiar with our Budget System of 
Bookkeeping and is competent to impart instruction in the 
same. In his public utterances and discussions at the National 
Commercial Teachers’ Federation he has shown extensive 
acquaintance with all the various methods of teaching and 
systems of accounting which are before the public, and we 
believe he is in every way competent to give thorough satis¬ 
faction in his professional work. 

Respectfully submitted, 

H. M. Rowe, 

Sec’y-Treas. 



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THE BOOKKEEPING COURSE 

WHO NEEDS IT 

Every young person who expects to acquire or possess property needs to know how to 
compete with the shrewd, calculating business men of this progressive age. In fact, without 
this special business training the chances are that the young man or woman of today will 
scarcely rise above the level of the common low wage-earner. 

YOU CAN GET IT / 

Many young men and women who want a business training offer the excuse that they 
“ have no means.” Remember the old maxim, ‘‘Where there’s a will there’s a way.” If you 
have the will, you can find the way. 

WHERE TO GET IT 

You do not go to a hardware store to buy calico. When you want a first-class article of 
any kind you prefer to go where they make a specialty of that article. The rule holds doubly 
good in educational matters. You do not expect to get a Business Education but once. It 
may cost you a trifle more to get it at a first-class business school than at a second-rate busi¬ 
ness school, at a high school, or department of a literary college, but in the end it is infinitely 
better and less expensive. 

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QUALITY OF IT 

After all, the value a student receives depends upon the qualifications of the teacher and 
the amount of personal attention he is able to give each individual. The managers of this 
institution are persons of years’ experience as business educators^and invite the most careful 
investigation of their past records and methods. No incompetent teachers will be employed 
by them because of their cheapness. 

BRANCHES INCLUDED IN THE BOOKKEEPING COURSE, 

AND nETHODS OF TEACHING 

In a teaching experience of many years we have used a number of the standard systems 
of Bookkeeping and Business Practice. This fact enables us to select the most up-to-date 
methods, as well as to present them to the student in a clear and concise manner. We en¬ 
deavor to impress upon our student that on the day he enters our school he enters upon the 
career of a business man. He begins at once to perform business transactions and to make 
proper records of them in his books. He is required during his course to fill out and use all 
kinds of business papers, from a simple check to articles of incorporation for a large stock 
company. He serves in the various departments of large wholesale, retail, commission, and 
banking houses. Such a course cannot help but appeal to those who wish to lay the foundation 
for a successful business life. 

OFFICE PRACTICE DEPARTflENT 

The Office Department is the crowning feature of our Actual Business Method of teach¬ 
ing bookkeeping This department has been reorganized, enlarged, and now consists of a bank 
and six wholesale offices, each equipped with the various conveniences to be found in any well- 
regulated business office. The student becomes the bookkeeper in turn in these six offices, in 
each of which a different line of business is transacted. The variety of work and the absolute 
accuracy required and attained makes the practice and its drill of the utmost value to the 
student. 

It is the unanimous testimony of students that in one month of office work they acquire 
more than they can learn in two months in the school room. The office training makes a 
bookkeeper who is able to step out in the world and keep any set of books correctly. Here 
he keeps the same books under the same conditions that he would were he employed in a reg¬ 
ular business house ; therefore when he leaves this department to actually become a bookkeeper 
or business manager it will be the same as leaving one business house to enter another. 

BANKING 

It is important that every man and woman preparing for business should know something 
of the manner in which bank books are kept. Students are required to act in the capacity of 
a teller, receiving deposits, paying checks, making collections, selling bank drafts to customers, 

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Cleveland, Ohio, May 25, 1904. 

Mrs. E. P. W. Stiehl, Urichsville, Ohio. 

Dear Madam; 

We have just heard of the disposition of your school and 
your intended departure from this territory. We assure you 
that it is with extreme regret on our part that we are to lose so 
valuable a customer, and one with whom our relations in the 
past have been so agreeable and pleasant. The success that 
you have attained will long stand as a monument to your in¬ 
domitable will and persistent energy toward the goal of per¬ 
fection. You take with you our best wishes for your future 
success, and we feel sure that with the energy and ability that 
you will apply to your work that your success is assured. We 
have always looked upon your students as being first class and 
a great credit to your efforts. 

Thanking you very kindly for the many favors, and hoping 
that at some future time we may see you again, we are, 

Yours very truly, 

E. W. Jarf.d, Manager. 


Frank H. Duke-Smith, 

Publisher 

Illustrated History, 

University of California. 

San Francisco, February 25, 1895. 

Prof. Eeon P. W. Stiehl, 

The History Building, City. 

My Dear Professor : 

It indeed affords me great pleasure to say a word in com¬ 
mendation of yourself, having known you now for more than 
fifteen years. 

Your work throughout the State of Virginia established 
you in that Commonwealth as a teacher of more than ordi¬ 
nary ability, and your wonderful success on the Pacific coast 
gives evidence that, instead of losing any of your old-time care 
and energy in your mode of instruction, you have profited by 
the lapse of years, and I can unhesitatingly recommend you to 
all the good people. 

With best wishes for your continued success, I am, 
Sincerely your friend, 

Frank H. Duke-Smith. 





UHRICHSVILLE DISTRICT, EAST OHIO CONFERENCE. 

Uhrichsville, Ohio, June 17, 1904. 
To Whom It May Concern : 

Mr. and Mrs. L. P. W. Stiehl organized a business college 
in Uhrichsville Ohio, about eight years ago. During four years 
of this time I have resided in the city—two years as pastor of 
the First Methodist Episcopal Church and two years as Pre¬ 
siding Elder of Uhrichsville District. I have had excellent 
opportunity to study the school with reference to the thorough¬ 
ness of the work, the progress of the students, and the bene¬ 
ficial effect of the college upon the city. In each and all of 
these particulars I desire to commend them and their work. 
The benefit of the college to the community could not well be 
overestimated. It gathered the best young people of the city 
and surrounding country into its halls, cultivated their 
minds and manners, increased their wage-earning ability, and 
thus fitted them for their life work. 

Charles B. Henthorne. 


seeing that all paper is properly endorsed, keeping cash book and signature book ; also 
performing the work of ledgerkeeper, keeping cash depositors’ ledger, balancing bank pass 
books, returning vouchers, etc. Students thus learn to do business with a bank and how a 
bank does business. 

THE CARD SYSTEM 

The keeping of accounts and records by the Card System is now very generally used by 
progressive manufacturing and commercial firms. The Card Ledger has many advantages over 
the Book Ledger'. Following are enumerated a few of them : The accounts can be removed ; 
the cards are self-indexing ; posting is very rapid ; trial balances can be taken quicker, and 
collections can be followed closer and more accurately. 

Every bookkeeper should be acquainted with the Card System of keeping accounts. 
The Spencerian Business CoeeEGE is the only school in this city that teaches it, so far as 
we are informed. Every student who takes the Full Bookkeeping Course here uses this 
ledger and becomes familiar with this system. 


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BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY, 
Cleveland Division, Trainmaster’s Office. 

Uhrichsville, Ohio, June 26, 1902. 
To Whom It May Concern : 

I have known the bearer of this letter, Prof. L. P. W. 
Stiehl, principal of Stiehl’s Business College, for a number of 
years; have employed three stenographers who were educated 
in his college and found their services entirely satisfactory. I 
can cheerfully recommend him as a competent and successful 
instructor in a general business course. • 

Yours truly, 

W. H. Romoser, 

Trainmaster. 



should read and carefully note “Special Inducement” and “The Ideal Combination 
Course ” under Rates of Tuition. 


RATES OF TUITION 


G. W. Reed, Mayor. 
(City Hall.) 


Uhrichsville, Ohio, May 22, 1902. 


To Whom it May Concern : 

I have been well acquainted with Professor L- P- W. Stiehl 
for several 3 r ears, during which time he has been supervisor of 
drawing and penmanship in our public schools. He is a genial 
gentleman, and his work here has given him a most excellent 
reputation as an instructor of force and originality. By his 
qualities as a hustler he is entitled to approval as a business 
man, and by his urbanity and companionableness he has claims 
for personal courtesies from whomever he may meet. 

Very truly, 

G. W. Reed. 


gggr COMPLETE BUSINESS COURSE. Double or Day Sessio?is* 


Full Business Course, by the monthly installment plan. $8.00 

Full Business Course, three months, if paid in advance. 22.00 

Full Business Course, six months “ “ ... 40.00 

Full Business Course, nine months “ “ . 50.00 

Books and Stationery for Complete Business Course, about. 8.co 


* The Double or Day Sessious referred to mean that students may have the benefit of two sessions by 
attending one day session and one night session or both day sessions for full tuition rates. 

The Single Sessions mean that students may attend either one of the three sessions, morning, afternoon, 
or night, for half rate of tuition. 


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Do not classify standard books with those given away. Very few things of value are to 
be gotten for nothing. The books used are high grade and not given away, because they are 
worth something. 

Instalment Plan. —Pupils finding it inconvenient to pay for a full six months in 
advance may arrange to pay iu installments, as follows : $15.00 at time of entering and three 
monthly installments of $10.00 each, making a total of $45.00. 

The Full Business Course includes the following subjects : Single and Double Entry 
Bookkeeping, Business Arithmetic, Business Penmanship, Rapid Calculations, Spelling, 
Business Tetter Writing, Grammar and Composition, Commercial Taw, Actual Business Practice 
in Wholesale and Retail Merchandising, Banking, Commission and Shipping, Jobbing, 
Railroading, etc. 

Average time required to complete this course is about six months. 


SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING COURSE. Double or Day Sessions* 


Full Shorthand and Typewriting Course, by the monthly installment plan. $8.00 

Full Shorthand and Typewriting Course, three months, if paid in advance. 22.00 

Full Shorthand and Typewriting Course, six months “ “ . 40.00 

Full Shorthand and Typewriting Course, nine months “ “ . 5 °-°° 

Dictation by the month to those who have had a partial course. 5.00 

Typewriting by the month to those who have had a partial course. 5.00 

Books and Stationery for Shorthand and Typewriting Course, about. 5.00 


Students have free access to the largest private library of commercial books in the 
United States or Canada. 

Instalment Plan —Payments may be made the same as in Complete Business Course. 

The Full Typewriting and Shorthand Course includes : Shorthand Writing, Translation 
of Shorthand Titerature, Reporters’ Methods, Business Tetters and Forms, Taw Forms, 
General Dictation, Tegal Dictation, Typewriting, Mimeographing, Manifolding, Press Copying, 
Grammar, Composition and Tetter Writing, Spelling, and Penmanship. 

Average time required to complete this course is about six months. 

Note.—P upils having failed to complete the work in six months in the Business, 
Shorthand, or Combination Course can pay $8.00 per month for extra time required. High 
School pupils will be accredited in English and Grammar in both the Business and Shorthand 
Departments. 


* See foot note on page 9. 


Joseph A. Leonard Company, 

Real Estate. 

Alameda, Cal., December 24,1896. 
To Whom it May Concern : 

I take pleasure in recommending Mrs. Lula Stiehl as a very 
competent teacher of typewriting, shorthand, bookkeeping, 
and other studies that go to make up a thorough business 
course. 

I owe to her, as my instructor, my ability as stenographer 
and bookkeeper. I have been employed with the Joseph A. 
Leonard Company for the past eighteen months as stenogra¬ 
pher and assistant bookkeeper, and, to all appearances, have 
given satisfaction. 

The majority of pupils that have been under her instruction 
since my acquaintance with her are holding good positions^ 
and her ability in this branch of education is unquestionable] 
Respectfully, 

Myra Lane. 


W. H. Angel, 

Principal of High School. 

Uhrichsville Ohio, June 12, 1902. 

To Whom jt May Concern : 

I have with interest for some time watched the progress 
of Stiehl’s Business College of this city. This school is under 
the able management of Mrs. L. P. W. Stiehl, a woman of ex¬ 
cellent character and remarkable energy, whose thorough 
knowledge of business practice and skill as an instructor have 
won for her the confidence and esteem of the students entrusted 
to her care. 

I know the work of this school is good. The best recommen¬ 
dation the school can have is the fact that the earnest students 
get positions without difficulty, and are able to hold the same. 

Very respectfully, 

W. H.- Angel. 


certificate OF MEMBERSHIP. 

This certifies that Mrs. Lula V. Stiehl has been continuously 
a member of the National Shorthand Teachers’ Association of 
the Commercial Teachers’ Federation, and is entitled to the 
privileges of the Association. 

Dated December 27, 1901. 

No. 85. 

J. Clifford Kennedy, President. 

L. A. Arnold, Secretary. 

Mr. Stiehl also holds a certificate of membership. 


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James Edward Law, 

Attorney and Counsellor, 

Clarksburg, West Virginia. 

April 14,1905. 

To Whom it May Concern : 

I take great pleasure in saying that Edward S. Bock has 
been employed by me in my office as prosecuting attorney for 
Harrison county, West Virginia, and also as court reporter for 
the circuit court of this county for and during the four years 
past; that I have found him in every respect thorough and 
capable. His work as court reporter has been entirely satis¬ 
factory, and his general knowledge of English and English 
composition has been such as to give a thorough finish to all 
his work. 

He is a graduate, as I understand, from one of Stiehl’s col¬ 
leges, conducted by Prof. L. P. W. Stiehl. 

Very respectfully, 

J. E. Daw. 


gf^THE IDEAL COMBINATION COURSE 

Whenever it is possible to do so, we strongly advise students to take The Ideal Combi¬ 
nation Course. We have numerous calls from business houses for young people who can write 
shorthand, operate the typewriter, and either keep a small set of books or assist the regular 
bookkeeper. A business just established may desire this combination so as to avoid the 
necessity for two employes, and yet if that business grows and develops, as it frequently does, 
a splendid opportunity may open up to the young person who is able to undertake the work at 
the inception. A young person’s chances for a desirable position are more than doubled by 
combining these courses. 

There are nine chances out of every ten to get a situation, the position is easy to hold, 
the pay is double, and, taking everything into consideration, we are willing to go on record as 
saying : “ The Ideal Combination Course is a Sure Key to Success.” 


ROBERT W. HUNT & CO., ENGINEERS. 

Pittsburg, November 14, 1903. 

Stiehl’s Business College, 

Uhrichsville, Ohio. 

Gentlemen : 

After completing a course in typewriting and stenography 
in your College, I secured a position as clerk and stenographer 
with Robert W. Hunt& Co., Civil Engineers, Pittsburg, Pa., and 
I can say I am experiencing no difficulties in performing the 
duties required of me, which I feel is due to the thorough train¬ 
ing I received at your College. 

I can conscientiously recommend Stiehl’s Business College to 
any young man or woman desirous of securing a thorough and 
practical business education. 

Yours very truly, 

Frank P. Worstell. 


STANDARD SANITARY MANUFACTURING CO. 

Pittsburg, Pa., August 5, 1903. 

Mrs. L. P. W. Stiehl, 

Uhrichsville, Ohio. 

Dear Mrs. Stiehl: 

Words cannot express my appreciation of the benefits of 
the business training I received while under your instruction, 
and can highly recommend the school to all those desirous of 
securing a business education. 

Am now in the employ of the Standard Sanitary Manufactur¬ 
ing Co. of Pittsburg, Pa., as stenographer, and find no trouble 
in performing my duty, due to the thorough training received 
while in your school. 

Sincerely, 

Roy R. Gatchel. 


SPECIAL INDUCEMENT 

THE IDEAL COMBINATION COURSE. Double or Day Sessions* 

In order to advertise the additional New Departments under the new management in the 
Old Spencerian Business Coleege, and to offer every inducement possible to investigate 
their methods, they are offering five hundred bright young men and women each a One Hundred 
Dollar Scholarship, good for their Ideal Combination Course Intensified, at the following 
special rates : 


Full Combination Course, by the monthly installment plan. $10.00 

Full Combination Course, three months, if paid in advance... 25.00 

Full Combination Course, six months, 11 “ . 45.00 

Full Combination Course, ten months “ ‘ 1 . 60 00 


The Combination Course includes the followiug subjects : Bookkeeping (Single and 
Double Entry), Business Penmanship, Shorthand, Typewriting, Grammar, Arithmetic, 
Spelling and Business Correspondence, etc. This course requires from seven to ten months 
for completion, and every student of the Combination Course will find remunerative employ¬ 
ment before, upon, or very soon after graduation. We can, therefore, recommend this course 
to our young friends who wish to make sure of immediate success. 


* See foot note on page 9. 


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PREPARATORY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT 


One month, single or double sessions. $ 5 -°° 

Three months, “ “ “ 14.00 

Six months, “ “ “ 26.00 

Ten months, “ “ “ 40.00 


The Preparatory English Course is sustained for the benefit of those whose education 
for any reason has been neglected and who are not far enough advanced to enter the regular 
Business Course. This course includes Spelling, Penmanship, Arithmetic, Rapid Calculation, 
Language, Drills, and Letter Writing. 



BUSINESS PENMANSHIP DEPARTMENT 


One month, one hour per day. $5.00 

Three months, “ “ . 12.00 

Six months, “ “ . 20.00 


. NORMAL PENMANSHIP DEPARTMENT 

( Teachers' Course') 


One month, double or day sessions. $ro.oo 

Three months, “ “ “ 25.00 

Six months, “ “ “ 50.00 


This course is designed for those who wish to become expert penmen or who desire to 
teach this beautiful art. It includes Plain and Ornamental Penmanship, Pen Lettering, 
Engrossing, Card-Writing, Specimen Work, Flourishing, Blackboard Writing, Methods of 
Teaching, etc. 


IvEON P. W. Stiehl (certificated), having establisht a pros 
perous business college in Uhrichsville, Ohio, is now organizing 
a new school in Canton, Ohio, with the most flattering pros¬ 
pects. Mr. Stiehl, who is also an expert teacher of long-hand 
penmanship and the author and publisher of Cyclography, an 
improved system of vertical writing, is one of the most broadly 
experienced all-around business educators in the country. He 
is one ofthose characteristically busymen, whoare always lookt 
to when something must be done for the general good, and 
accordingly, in addition to the duties devolving upon him in the 
conduct of his two schools and his extensive publishing busi¬ 
ness, Mr. Stiehl is State secretary for Ohio for the National 
Shorthand Teachers’ Association and chairman of the executive 
committee of the Ohio Commercial and Special Teachers’ Asso¬ 
ciation. In his school work Mr. Stiehl is ably assisted by his 
accomplisht wife, Mrs. Lula Stiehl. 

Note. —This editorial appeared in the August number, 1902, 
of The Phonographic Magazine, page 196. 


TO AN ENTERPRISING PUBLIC. 


Canton, Ohio, August, 1903. 


We, the undersigned, have employed stenographers and office 
assistants direct from Stiehl’s College at Canton, Ohio, and 
found them to be among the best that it has been our good 
fortune to secure. We therefore advise young men and women 
to attend Stiehl’s College ; also refer our friends to Mr. Stiehl 
for competent stenographers and bookkeepers. 

The Bucher & Gibbs Plow Co., by F. B. Niesz, Treasurer; 
The Best Street Light Co., J. G. Best, Treasurer; John E. Mon- 
nott, Secretary of Board of Trade; John Werner, Wholesale 
and Retail Wall Paper, Paints, etc.; The Life Plant Co., per 
H. H. Elliot; The Automatic Disinfectine Co., J. H. Werner, 
General Manager ; J. L. Robb, Attorney-at-Law ; W. J. Head, 
Chief Trainmaster of the B. & O., Cleveland, Ohio; W. H. 
Romoser, Trainmaster of the B. & O., Uhrichsville, Ohio, and 
Thomas F. Snyder, Editor of “ The Craftsman.” 

There are hundreds of others, but enough is a feast. The 
names I have given afiord ample evidence of the fact that 
Stiehl’s Colleges are among the best. Students may enroll any 
week day or evening. All graduates and one hundred and fifty 
undergraduates have secured good situations within the past 
year. What we have done for our former patrons in Ohio we 
will do for you iu Stiehl’s Spencerian College at Washington, 
D. C. 


Sincerely yours, 


L. P- W. Stiehl. 


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THIS BOOK CONTAINS SIXTY EXERCISES IN PRACTICAL PENMANSHIP. Send us a sample of your writing before attempting these 
exercises, and preserve another for your own reference ; then practice faithfully what time you can reasonably devote to it during one week, observing the forms care_ 
fully, and at the end of that time send us another specimen. Write each exercise carefully twelve times, reading the directions each time. When you have written each 
of the exercises twelve times as directed, take a sample of your writing and compare it with the first specimen you wrote. Then, if you have time during the mouth, 
repeat the operation, taking another specimen for yourself and one to send to us. A good handwriting is a most valuable accomplishment, and we want to assist you in 
that direction. 


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Why.Attend the Spencerian business College? The courses of study have been improved from year to year, as the demands of 
the commercial world have made it necessary, and are now the most complete and thorough that can be offered. 

• ta ^ e P^ e 5 sure * n cal ^ n & your attention to the very superior advantages we have to offer, viz : a course of practical studv rarely equaled in anv institution of 
its kind in the land ; our large corps of experienced teachers, who are really experts in their special branches ; very large, pleasant study halls ; toilet and cloak rooms : 
steam heat; gas and electric lights ; electric fans; and the elegant furnishings and equipment of the different departments. 

You will only educate yourself once ; remember , the best is none too g'ood ) and a cheap , shoddy course is no better than none at all. The business world is calling loudly 
for capable stenographers, bookkeepers, and clerks, but there is no room for the incompetent, poorly equipped, or half prepared, and you cannot afford to be one. In 
securing a business education get the best; it will prove the cheapest in the end. 


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P VE)RY young man and woman should have a practical education. The best course for the least money in the shortest time is given at the Spencerian College. A 
commercial education has become so much a matter of necessity that any argument in favor of its acquisition may be dispensed with. The curriculum of many of our 
public schools, academies, and colleges in a superficial manner nowinclude pretended commercial, penmanship, and shorthand departments. Beware of such pretenders ; 
they never can give the genuine practical business course of the real business college. Do not waste time, money, and opportunity by attending institutions that cannot 
demonstrate real actual business practice. 

GENERAL INFORMATION. We teach the reporting style of Graham elucidated and Pitman elaborated. Ninety out of every hundred expert reporters 
practice the system of shorthand we impart to our students. 


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ACCOUNTANTS ENDORSE Us. Every expert accountant who has investigated the methods of instruction in bookkeeping used in Stiehl’s Spen¬ 
cerian College has endorsed it as the only practical and successful way of teaching the art. 

These men are lending their hearty co-operation to the college and are among those who endorse the Actual Practice system as the only really practical method 
of giving instruction in bookkeeping and business methods. This course includes a series of lectures and readings on different branches of bookkeeping. 


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OUR SYSTEM. The educational hit of the twentieth century. A new era in practical education. We have the genuine, not the counterfeit. The 6chool 
becomes the counting-room. The student’s dream of future surroundings made a present reality. Genuine bookkeeper’s experience from the start. No copying 
Nothing impractical. The students learn from doing. They are aroused to earnest magnificent effort. They do not play at business, but go through real experience in 
bookkeeping and office practice the first day they enter the school. Our students meet new faces out in the business world but not new facts. We add the functions of 
business managers to instructors. 

Our superior course in bookkeeping, comprising every branch of accounting, specially prepared for our exclusive use by an expert accountant. We excel in penman¬ 
ship, shorthand, typewriting, and bookkeeping. 


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ACTUAL WORK IS DON E. The students do actual work—as actual as though they were connected with a business house. Their instructor is the head 
bookkeeper, to whom they look for help and advice. The only real difference in the relations between them is that the instructor is ever ready and willing to help them 
solve the knotty problems which arise, while the chief of a mercantile office would feel no such interest and would be less willing to lend assistance. 

The Bookkeeping Department is arranged to resemble the interior of modern business offices, and the similarity does not end with this resemblance. The 
methods are similar, and one might easily imagine himself in large mercantile establishments when he enters the room where instruction in this branch is given. 


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SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING DEPARTMENT. The Home-Study Course in shorthand and typewriting will enable persons to spend their spare 
time to advantage. The course is so arranged as to meet the wants of those who can devote all their time to the work as well as those who can give only a little time 
each day or evening. Students receive carefully prepared lessons so thoroughly explained as to make them feel that the instruction, etc., is being delivered at their homes, 
including books, typewriter, and supplies. Write for terms, etc. If you can attend the Spencerian Business College and receive personal instruction from start to 
finish, about two-thirds of your time will be saved and success assured. 


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INTER-COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT. All Commercial Teachers, by common consent, acknowledge the highest, most business-like, and best 
form of business practice to be what is called “ Inter-Communication.” This is the plan of conductiug “trade " and correspondence relations between or among students 
of different cities. You can take the Home-Study course by this splendid plan. Write for full information, etc. 

Just at this point the superiority of a course of training at the Spencerian is apparent. A group of offices represeuting different cities, under one management, and 
a uniform system of trade so unified and regulated that both sides of every transaction are properly taken care of to enable students and teachers to bring this method of 

practice to its highest efficiency. 


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CALL AT TH E COLLEGE and see us ; let us talk the matter over, take a look through the college rooms, see the young people at work, see how we are able 
to interest and develop the minds of the young. Visitors are always welcome. Do not fear of giving us trouble. It is always a pleasure to us to explain our methods and 
show our work. If you cannot call, write to us, and full information will be sent promptly. 

WH EN TO ENTER. Students are received at any time, and the term of each dates from the day of enrollment. The day at:d evening classes are in session 
throughout the entire year. Charges for instruction are reasonable. Books are sold or rented to students, as they desire. 


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Qppjrpg SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES. All young persons who are ambitious to enter business life and make their way successfully in the world should 
take the course of practical business study and training offered at this institution. A few months spent in this finely equipped school will prove a lifelong benefit and will 
render a young man or a young woman self-supporting and independent. 

SITUATIONS FOR GRADUATES. An important advantage ill connection with this school is the employment bureau, by which all worthy graduates 
are helped to positions free of charge as soon as qualified. Hundreds are placed in good paying positions every year. 


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TIME REQUIRED. This depends entirely upon the student. We have no desire to mislead any one with reference to this or any other matter relating to our 
business, but much depends upon the previous education as to the time any student can finish a course in a reputable business college, and we wish to say right here we 
can qualify you and do as well for you as any honorable and honest promise made by any reliable school. A handsome diploma, without extra charge , is given to each 
student who completes the full course in both departments. See approximate time statements under rates of tuition, etc. 


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BOOKKEEPING DEPARTMENT. Men and women who wish to besuccessful discard guess-work and chance. This is an age in which brains are at a 
premium, an age in which achievement rests on intelligent preparation. American business methods demand that every man and woman have a technical knowledge 
of account keeping. To a person who aspires to become a first-class accountant, a course in bookkeeping is indispensable, while every person, no matter what business 
he intends to follow, will find a knowledge of accounts helpful to him. Write for all about Home-Study course in bookkeeping. You can learn bookkeeping at home, but 
not half so well as at the Spencerian College. 


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Individual Instruction. Our plan of work is first by individual instruction—that is, the teacher sits down by the side of the student and sees that 
the work is correctly done. Some students comprehend more quickly and some are more persistent in their efforts than others, therefore should be allowed to advance 
in their studies without being held in class for those who are indolent and dull. With us every student can regulate his progress by her or his own efforts ; if they work 
we are ready and eager to assist them. A teacher is always in each hall ready to solve any problem and answer any reasonable question of students individually. 


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NIGHT SCHOOL. We teach the same branches in our night school as the day sessions, and we offer special facilities to those of neglected education and 
who wish to learn privately the common branches as well as the commercial and stenographic, etc. As the work is done by individual aud class instruction, students 
are at liberty to select special subjects. Many of our night students are employed during the day, and attend the night school to fit themselves for advancement or to 
qualify themselves from the drudgery of manual labor. We please our students and our students their employers. What more would you wish? In evidence ask the 
thousands of our students now in good positions, in fact the best positions, who have been under our instruction during the last thirty years. 




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THE PEOPLE say we have the brightest and neatest school in the city, and that they have never visited a school where the students were so orderly and so 
much interested in their work as here. 

BUSI N ESS MEN say they want our graduates in their offices because they have been taught right and are competent. 

PARENTS say they prefer to send their sons and daughters to us, for they are aware that the influences surrounding our school are of an elevating nature, and 
that the students in attendance are young ladies and gentlemen possessing the necessary elements of true character. 


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DIPLOMAS ON GRADUATION. Our graduates, in addition to being assisted to good positions, are furnished with a beautifully designed certificate of 
qualification, evidencing the completion of our course, and certifying to their proficiency as stenographers upon graduation. This emblem of merit serves as a permanent 
memento of commendable achievement and as a lasting tribute to the laudable effort of parents or friends to assist those closely bound to them by the indissoluble ties 
of affection or friendship to become well equipped for the strenuous duties of an honorable business career. 


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THE ART DEPARTM ENT. The object of the Art Department is not only to make artists, but to train all to be able to see objects as they are and represent 
them as they appear. Teachers are more and more appreciating the value of drawing as an important and ready means of awakening and conveying thought along other 
lines and subjects in the school-room, etc. This course will prepare persons for designers, illustrators, positions in engraving establishments, teachers, artists, etc. It 
will help you to earn a living and make money without excessive mental or physical toil. It will put capital in your hand and head where it will be safe and always a 
ready resource. For full information about the Home-Study Course, write or, better still, attend the Spencerian College. 


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PENMANSHIP DEPARTMENT. The Spencerian, under the new management, will excel in all systems of Penmanship. Mr. Stiehl is the author of a 
great variety of styles of writing and a master Pen Artist. Mr. Stiehl's Home-Study Courses are the best. Write for free specimens, rates of tuition, etc. 

It isAitterly impossible to give anything like a fair idea of the rare beauty and practical value of the unparalleled series of lessons in Penmanship, comprising twenty 
systems of plain business writing, including back-hand, forward-hand, vertical-hand, round-hand, with all their variations of small, large, heavy, light, compact, running 
etc. All ornamental styles, etc. How to teach Engrossing, etc. Attend the Spencerian and excel in Penmanship. 


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NOW IS YOUR TIME. Graduates of other business colleges and commercial departments of high schools, etc., may take a Post-Graduate Course at the 

Spencerian Business College, and be successfully prepared for immediate employment upon completing said course. 

Beginners should start and finish at the Spencerian Business College, because Commercial Departments in high schools, etc., mean four years (or more) of 
study, no experience, no business, no money. A course at the Spencerian Business College means one year of study, two years of bpsiqess experience, three years of 
Salary, atnopnting to from $1,200 to $2,000—a very good start in life for any young man or woman. 


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MAKE NO M ISTAKE. We advise young persons seeking a business education to shun that class of schools which allows discounts from published prices to 
secure patronage, and make the price of tuition a subject of “dicker.*’ No principle of business is better established than thatjevery commodity is sold for a price in 
proportion to its actual value. Cheap tuition means cheap instruction, and that is dear at any price. 

RAILROAD SCHOOL TICKETS. All railroads issue a monthly school ticket at lower than their regular rates. These tickets may be obtained by a 
certificate provided for that purpose, which we will furnish on application at the College office. 


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Mr. L. P. W. STIEHL ILLUSTRATING CORRECT POSITION AND PEN=HOLDING. 

The ideal position is the following manner : Front position — nearly erect, bending slightly forward from the hips, chest free from the 
desk, paper to right of center of body, turned slightly to the left and nearly in line with the arm from elbow forward. Move the paper or book 
forward as you approach the foot of the page. Train your hand for correct pen-holding by grasping a hollow rubber ball of proper size, affording 
comfortable feeling in the hollow of the right hand. Fasten the penholder to said rubber ball by a tight loop, and loop each finger to the ball that 
does not assume the correct curvature. Adjust the penholder between the thumb, first and second fingers, about one inch from the point of the 
pen, the holder pointing along the arm toward the elbow. Another loop fastened to the holder and encircling the first finger between first and 
second joints will prevent and break the probable faults of gripping the pen and cramping the fingers. Get the Cyclographic notion and write 
with the rolling motion, but do not generate more rotary movement than you can control. I have faith in the movement adopted in this style of 
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